Today's Google Trends: The Real X-Files

Today's Google Trends: The Real X-Files

If we are what we Google, then
Google Hot Trends
—an hourly rundown of search terms "that experience sudden surges in popularity"—is the Web's best cultural barometer. Here's a sampling of today's top searches. (Rankings on Hot Trends list current as of 9 a.m.):

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No. 2: "Dancing With the Stars" and No. 3: "Tom Delay."
No, this is not a mistake. Today on
Good Morning America
, Tom Bergeron, the host of the popular reality TV show,
announced
that former Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay will be among those to try to
emulate Fred Astaire
this season. DeLay is the first politician to appear on the show.

No. 14: "aurora spy plane."
Today, Britain's Ministry of Defense
opened its secret UFO files
containing the details of hundreds of sightings between 1981 and 1996. The so-called "real-life X-files" includes the report of an incident on March 31, 1993, in which more than 70 people reported seeing a large, low-flying object.
Many
have
speculated
that this was no UFO but actually a secret unmanned U.S. spy plane called "Aurora," rumored to be capable of hypersonic flight.
Read the reports
and judge for yourself on the
Telegraph
's Web site.